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Re: Stability of cars/rails?
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Mon, 13 Oct 2003 01:26:16 GMT
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If you took the monorail and ran it at 4.5 volts (to slow it down), you
might get a very wobble free ride..... but I haven't tested it.

-Tom

Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Josh Baakko wrote:
> 
> > But the wobble is realistic in a way.  if you watch a slow moving train, rolling
> > along, it sways side to side a little bit, this is because it is almost
> > imppossible & un-needed to have the track PERFECTLY level, unless of course
> > you're speaking of high speed rail.  Lego track is closer to perfect then it
> > should be thus the wobble in the bogie plates recreates this...
> 
> 
> Agreed, and I even take advantage of the wobble in MTW-1003 to good effect,
> however in this case the original poster is looking for a jitter free way to do
> circular pans with a camera, so wobble is not his friend in this application.
> 
> ++Lar



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(...) There is also one thing I forgot to mention when I made the original post...I'm not doing realtime filming. I'm doing stop-motion. Therefore the need for a wobbleless system is even greater. Also, to make it harder, I cannot trigger the camera (...) (23 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains)

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(...) Agreed, and I even take advantage of the wobble in MTW-1003 to good effect, however in this case the original poster is looking for a jitter free way to do circular pans with a camera, so wobble is not his friend in this application. ++Lar (23 years ago, 12-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains)

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